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A Garden Party & The Running of the Great Race

You know Julian Gatsby. He recently inherited the family home following the sad demise of his father. Julian is a free-spirited young man, in his mid-20s, and a new fan of the horse races. You arrive for a fabulous garden party and are shown to your room. Other guests arrive shortly after. In a few hours you will gather in the garden for an enjoyable afternoon of food, drink, stimulating conversation, and the radio broadcast of the Great Race.

This scenario has the capacity for up to 32 people to be involved, playing in several overlapping games. On the surface this scenario is in the traditional Call of Cthulhu mold, based at a country house in the late 1920s. It can be run as a single game with one keeper and up to six players, in the usual manner, but what sets it apart is that it is designed to be run as two or more parallel games. To date it has been run successfully with four simultaneous games, using a total of seven keepers and twenty-four players. Whichever option you go for, the basic game concept remains the same: Julian Gatsby has meddled in matters that he should not have, leaving the players and himself to experience strange and mysterious events -- until the players find a solution.

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION monographs are longer works by one or more authors on a subject of import to Call of Cthulhu roleplayers. On these products the author has also fulfilled the functions of editor and layout artist; we at Chaosium have done little in the way of editorial. We found these works compelling and thought that you would enjoy them. Through the publication of monographs we can offer our most loyal fans more information more easily, and evaluate the potential of these works for eventual release to the wholesale market.

By Paul Fricker. 120 pages. 8.5 x 11" downloadable watermarked PDF book with cover images, created from electronic production files.

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Cocktail Party

Posted by Kwakwa Garvey on 28th Sep 2018

We played this as a cocktail party, it get very messy. The scenario is easily adaptable to some LARPable modifications - playing the soundtrack to The Sting on loop, having a 30 piece skull jigsaw scattered about as a spell prop, taking bets on the horse race, a Yithian mind swap. Highly recommend!

Complex, rich, fun adventure perfect for a convention setting

Posted by Nick J on 11th Mar 2018

I played Gatsby & the Great Race, orchestrated by Cory Welch, Jennifer Martin and several other great keepers at Gen Con X. The players universally enjoyed it - due to the twists and turns, and the narrative-rich pre-generated characters. Highly recommend